We seem to have a car abandoned on the road outside our house.
It has been ticketed but it's been there for weeks. Who should we talk to about getting it removed? Chris Brown, Epsom.
Auckland Transport is your best bet. If the car has not been reported stolen, the police are unable to help. If it appears the car has been abandoned, Auckland Transport is responsible for its removal. However, the process to legally declare a vehicle as abandoned can take several weeks and it cannot be removed until that process is complete, unless there is an immediate safety concern. If anyone expresses interest in the vehicle during this process, the vehicle cannot be declared abandoned.
For some time now there have been several old steam locomotives parked in a siding near Britomart Station. My train-mad grandson wonders where these engines have come from, and what is planned for them. Alan Brown, Auckland Central.
If they are the ones I'm thinking of, they are ex-South African steam locomotives belonging to Mainline Steam. Mainline had a depot in Parnell, but commercial pressures have forced a move. Some of their equipment has gone to the Glenbrook Vintage Railway, some is in storage, but the size of the South African engines poses a problem still to be resolved.